Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Happy (Belated) New Year (but a little bit sad at the end)

    The evidence of my Big Plans for the New Year can be found in the six-line list of resolutions I wrote on my giant to-do board. They’re reachable goals: read 30 books, finish revising my first (readable) novel, write a second novel (readable or not — no pressure!). I had high hopes of getting started…

  • “Sleepers” — Interzone (March 2014)

    “Sleepers” — Interzone (March 2014)

    My short story “Sleepers” appeared in the March 2014 issue of Interzone and was reprinted online in the December 2014 isssue of Fantastic Stories. First line: “The newscasters say that the sleepers came without warning, that one day they weren’t here and the next, they were.” Inspiration: In February of 2013, my partner had spinal…

  • “Sleepers” reprinted in Fantastic Stories

    “Sleepers” reprinted in Fantastic Stories

    My story “Sleepers,” which originally appeared in Interzone, has been reprinted in Fantastic Stories, which means it’s now free to read online: http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/short-story-sleepers/ “The newscasters say that the sleepers came without warning, that one day they weren’t here and the next, they were. I don’t believe them. There must have been signs we were too…

  • “Where You Came From”

    “Where You Came From”

    Have a new story out in Three-Lobed Burning Eye, which also happens to be the companion piece to one of my poems: “In Agape the people starve themselves, of food, of blood, of water, of rosy cheeks and sex; they go to school and church and then to their houses where they lock themselves in…

  • Art for “Nostalgia”

    Art for “Nostalgia”

    Today I received the art for my story “Nostalgia,” which comes out in the January 2015 issue of Interzone. This will be my third story in Interzone, and I’m excited to see the finished product.